Happy Dance!!

I finally finished Mystery 8!!! It’s been a long time in coming, as I actually started this on 1st January 2005 and finished on 1st February 2008. I am so pleased that it’s finished at last, and it is so pretty in real life, the photographs just doesn’t do justice to the fabulous colours and the wonderful sparkliness of the beads and crystals.

Keep beading, keep keep beading!

Apologies to Leona Lewis for slightly altering the lyrics to her latest song, but I am still plugging away on the beading on Mystery 8. Things I have discovered while beading:1. Beading needles are very very sharp!
2. If you drop a beading needle it’s almost impossible to find it again.
3. I LOVE Tacky Bob.
4. Beads can actually disappear into thin air when they land on carpet.
5. Swarovski crystal bicones are easier to find than beads, but still take two people a torch and a certain amount of furniture removal
6. Never leave beading until the end on a Chatelaine design.I had hoped to have Mystery 8 completely finished by the end of this month, but at the moment I still have three sets of gates and two sets of waves to bead so unless there is a freak snow storm overnight which stops me from driving to work tomorrow I can’t see it happening.

Jayne from Jayne’s Attic told me that the fabric I ordered for Tuscany Town Mandala is on the way to me so hopefully that will arrive tomorrow, I can’t wait to see it as I’ve only seen this colour (Fallen Leaves from Polstitches) on a small cut. I’ll let you know how it looks.

So close to a Happy Dance

Yesterday I felt like I was coming down with a cold, and I really can’t afford to be getting ill at the moment, it’s just too busy in work as Boss has just come back from a two week holiday in the Carribean and is well rested and raring to get to work.So I decided that I would stay inside, keep warm, watch some DVDs and get loads of stitching done. It seemed to do the trick because this morning I feel a whole lot better.I got loads done on Mystery 8 and I’m very nearly done with the stitching, I have two more trees left to stitch on the outside edge and then I can move on to finishing the beading. As for the DVDs, my favourite stitching DVDs are the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. I’ve watched them so many times I can almost recite the script LOL, so I know just the right times to look up and watch, usually when Viggo Mortensen is on screen LOL.

This morning I have some housework to do, mostly washing/ironing but should get a few hours to myself later on this afternoon.